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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Legacy of Fossil Fuel Industry Disturbances

By Steph Weizenbach / 29 September 2023

BY KEVIN P. TIMONEY

The ability to identify contamination and ecological impairment is becoming increasingly important as the pervasive effects of the fossil fuel industry come to light. Municipalities and individuals are coming into contact with an expanding network of industrial landscape disturbance. Stories continue to surface of towns and homeowners that discover they have built on or are living alongside contaminated site.

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Survival Against the Odds: Alberta’s Half-moon Hairstreak Butterfly

By Steph Weizenbach / 29 September 2023

BY BENNY ACORN

Waterton Lakes National Park is truly one of the most remarkable areas in all of Alberta, where natural beauty is partnered with rich and unique biological diversity. Although you would not expect it, the story of one of Alberta’s rarest insects begins here, under the late-winter snow. This is a story of unexpected alliances, remarkable specialization, and perseverance in the face of catastrophic adversity, and it all takes place on the Blakiston Fan.

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Freedom to Roam

By Steph Weizenbach / 29 September 2023

BY RICHARD SCHNEIDER

What if people were allowed to walk through and explore undeveloped landscapes wherever and whenever they chose? And what if this was considered a basic human right with deep cultural roots and wide public support?

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Whooping Cranes: Step by Step, Egg by Egg, Towards Recovery

By Steph Weizenbach / 29 September 2023

BY HIRA SHAH

The whooping crane was once widely distributed across North America, but by the 1940s, hunting and habitat loss had reduced the species to only 21 birds. Wood Buffalo National Park remains the only place in Canada where whooping cranes nest.

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Bird Study Group – Birds Canada!

By Steph Weizenbach / 28 September 2023

Nature Calgary
Online Presentation
Wed, October 4 at 7:30 PM

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Alberta Important Bird Area Caretaker Meeting

By Steph Weizenbach / 28 September 2023

Alberta IBA Caretaker Volunteers Meeting and Info
Tues, Nov 7 at 12 pm

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Migratory Bird Day Crafts at the Zoo

By Steph Weizenbach / 28 September 2023

Nature Alberta
Volunteer Opportunity
Saturday, October 14

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Nature Calgary Field Trips

By Steph Weizenbach / 12 September 2023

Nature Calgary
Calgary, AB
Sep, Oct

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Nature Programs at HSNC

By Steph Weizenbach / 12 September 2023

Nature Activities at Helen Schuler Nature Centre
Lethbridge
Sep

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Time Travelling to Alberta’s Past and Future Under a Changing Climate

By Steph Weizenbach / 31 August 2023

Grasslands Naturalists Society & Nature Alberta
Online Presentation
Tuesday, November 28 at 8 PM

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